A teenager who was shot on March 6th with pellets by a police rank during the Bush Lot Village protest over the elections result is still awaiting surgery.
Annuradha Sukra, 19, of Bush Lot Village, West Coast Berbice, who was mistakenly identified as a protestor, is still awaiting surgery for the pellets in her body.
Jayshree Sukra, the mother of the teen, told Stabroek News that her daughter is still awaiting surgery, after being advised by doctors that the pellets need to be closer to the surface of the skin, before surgery can be done.
The mother explained, “To cut her now, would do more damage.”
Commenting on her daughter’s well-being, she said, “Sometimes she have good days, sometimes it’s bad.”
In recounting the incident, Jayshree told Stabroek News they were walking out of their street in the Bush Lot Village, when her daughter started to record the protest. She said someone pelted a police rank, who then turned and opened fire, causing her daughter to be injured.
It was stated that young Sukra sustained injuries to her head, chest and legs. “She get pellets in her head and eight in her intestine”, the mother related.
The teen who was previously a patient at the Fort Wellington Hospital, is still to determine where she will have the surgery done when the time comes.